updated Sat. April 20, 2024
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Lawfare (blog)
January 10, 2018
John Bellinger. John B. Bellinger III is a partner in the international and national security law practices at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in Washington, DC. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as The Legal AdviserÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
October 10, 2017
John Bellinger has previously discussed this case here, here, and here. District Judge Stephen Wilson first dismissed the case in 2010, but the Ninth Circuit reversed his decision in 2013 and the Supreme Court denied cert in 2016. On remand, Judge Wilson again dismissed the suit earlier this year, holdingÃâà...
Princeton Alumni Weekly
September 28, 2017
John Bellinger '82 was the legal adviser for the Department of State and the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration. He previously served as counsel for national security matters at the Department of Justice and as special assistant to the director of central intelligence. To serve orÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
September 5, 2017
On Friday evening, the President nominated Jennifer Newstead to be the next Legal Adviser of the State Department. I worked closely with Jennifer during the Bush Administration, and I think she is an outstanding choice (and would be in any Administration). She is exceptionally smart (she clerked forÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
August 16, 2017
One year ago this month, I and 49 other former national security officials who had served in senior positions in Republican administrations released a statement saying that Donald Trump “would be a dangerous President and would put at risk our country's national security and well-being.” Here are severalÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
June 20, 2017
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing today on a new Authorization to Use Military Force Against terrorist groups. Kathleen Hicks, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and I were the witnesses. My written statement is here. Kathleen Hicks' written statement is here.
Lawfare (blog)
June 7, 2017
Almost lost in the maelstrom of other news yesterday, the White House sent seventeen new Presidential nominations to the Senate, including the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division and four agency general counsels. Included in this group is Charles “Cully” Stimson to be General Counsel ofÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 6, 2017
The United States has just launched a missile attack against Syrian air bases, apparently in response to the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians. (The attack apparently was launched in the middle of President Trump's dinner with Chinese President Xi, and is not likely to makeÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 5, 2017
Dina served as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs in the George W. Bush Administration and should be an experienced and moderating foreign policy voice in PC and DC meetings. [Note: This post has been revised to reflect that Dina Powell has been added to both PCs andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
March 12, 2017
The Guantanamo Bay detention facility was not a political initiative of the Bush White House. It was established in early January 2002 because the Defense Department needed a secure and adequately equipped facility to hold and interrogate hundreds of Al Qaida and Taliban terror suspects who hadÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
December 8, 2015
Donald Trump's latest outrageous statement—that all Muslims should be excluded from the United States—confirms what I expect most Lawfare readers already knew: not only does he lack the national security and foreign policy qualifications to be President, he is actually endangering our national securityÃâà...
